12) Drag racing was you and your best friend filling two wheel barrows with
manure from the barn and racing with them to see who got to the dumping spot
first

13) If you disagreed with your parents, you kept it to yourself, but still
respected them

14) We did not always have everything we wanted, but we had everything we
ever really needed

15) Hunting, fishing, trapping, and skinny dipping was a prerequisite
for normal boyhood development

16) Young girls actually strove to and took pride in cooking home cooked
meals and making their own dresses

17) The only curse word in the movies was "Frankly Scarlet my dear, I
don't give a damn" and even that made us blush!

18) Sneaking a beer from your Dad's ice-chest was something he did not
immediately interrogate you about, he just let an upset stomach and headache
do the punishing for him

19) Mosquito's were worth fighting off to see a drive-in movie

20) Soap had a multifunction: cleansing a foul body and a foul mouth

21) A wake-up pinch or a kick to the shin was still a common practice on
church pews

22) A neighbor in need always found out he had more friends than he thought
he did

23) When you got a little older, you realized that your Mom, Dad, and
preacher actually had a pretty good sense of humor (and you prayed that GOD
did too)

24) No matter how bad you were or what you had done, Mom, Dad, and JESUS
forgave you and still loved you

25) You told your parents that you would never say anything like that to
your kids, many years later you realize you sound just like your parents!
(Hey they could not always be wrong)

26) Your Dad put you on his knee when you two were fishing and he said
"Life just does not get any better than this" and he was 100%
right!

They say you can never go back, I have tried, but the times are different.
Well, maybe the times are the same, it's just the people that are truly
different.

Looking back, I tried to teach my daughter by the old code. At times things
were strained. Well, I have discovered that the times do change, but if you
do your job right with your kids, things will come full circle. My youngest
told me one day that I was really hard on her at times, but she understands
now that she was on the verge of making some very bad decisions. She thanked
me for what I did.

Full circle? I like the sound and feeling of that.

&&&

HOW TO TREAT OLD MAN TIME

BY DANNY GILL

Do not look but twice on the clock

For time won’t wait for any one, flesh or phantasm

Drive your full attention towards it,

And it will take a thousand millenniums,

To move one minute

Direct your unflinching eyes to another chore,

And it will take the snap of a finger,

The stroke of a hand to move hours

Let this be known, time is a double edged sword

It’s the most powerful panacea, while

Being the most deadly disease

&&&

A CHILD UNWANTED

Jackie

They say you don't struggle in life until your old and torn

I struggled for life since before I was born

My mother tried to kill herself to get rid of me

A drug overdose failed and shewas stuck having me

A child unwanted I was born

Two parents and a six year custody battle both said they wanted me

One told the truth the other just lied

Six long years filled with anger and anguish

And one parent left standing by my side

One truely loved me and the other just lied

The hurt, the pain I deal with til this day

I feel like a child without a name a child unwanted

My heart is always filled with pain

A pain knowing I was born to a woman who truely never wanted me

A woman who was with my father for his mony got stuck having me

A child UNWANTED

&&&

Confused

Viktor G. Grigorov

My eyes are crying,

My soul is dying.

But who cares what I feel, do you?

When I am saying I LOVE YOU

It seems nobody’s interested in my story

That lead my path of the glory

Doesn’t matter anymore to me, my life is as simple as yours

There’ll be always closed and open doors

I hope you’ll never forget my feeling to you, how much you mean to me

My dream to be with the person with whom I wont be able ever be.

My final words to you girl that I really adore

That I hadn’t told you ever before

Darling, I love you, please never forget

That i love you just like that!!!

&&&

SPRING`S ROSE IN BLOSSOM

"Mother" Marie Gibbs

Antonio Cassone

A spring`s rose in blossom

You have not withered

We have not lost you

Yet, we have gained an angel

Your sweet cooking provided us nourishment

Your uninhibited spirit enlightened those whom you touched

Your laughter gave us encouragement

And your wit always made one think

The fact that you left us is real

But our memories of you will always live in the heart

I knew we`d be friends

Right from the start

And when I was hungry you fed me

When I was sad you made me laugh

When my spirit scorned, you embraced me

You always had an open-door policy

So, when winter`s night falls

I will think of you as that spring rose

One that flourishes, smells fragrant and fresh

A true earth mother, whose endurance and power still grows

&&&

True Friends

Ravi Rajan

Ever been alone in a dark room?,

filled with fear and gloom,

your mind refuses to clear,

your heart crampled with fear,

The darkness chokes your numb senses,

you become desperate to break all fences.

A feeling comes; you don't know why,

you feel you are about to die.

And then you see a glimmer of light,

dispelling the darkness with radiant might.

Hope again blooms into you like a flower,

your mind gets a new lease of power.

Forgetting all things you so sorely lack,

you are back again on the life track.

True friends are like that glimmer of light,

never let them go out of sight.

&&&

Once Again

Valerie Pena

I gave you my heart

I gave you my soul

I gave you my thoughts

I gave you my present

I gave you my future

And what did you do?

Broke my heart

Set my soul free

Scattered my thoughts

Confused my pesents

And lost my future

Please can you

Put my heart together once again?

&&&

On one freezing New York day,

my cousins friend wanted to play.

My aunt and cousin got in the car,

there wouldn’t be trouble, they weren't going too far.

The roads were empty,

the ice was slick,

death was coming, way too quick.

Without a warning, they lost control

Did they hit some snow, a rock, or maybe a pot hole?

They slammed into a tree on the side of the road,

Everyday I wish, god please, send them home.

My aunt Diane died right away,

but my cousin Melissa would live just two more days.

I lost two people from black ice,

within to grueling days, to be precise.

Even though they are gone from this earth,

they are still in our hearts,

All because that day, the ice ripped us apart.

Laura barnes

&&&

grief
Victoria Campana

Upon a bleeding heart I cry,and sadness plagues my soul.Could this be the way
I'm meant to be or is there something more.

How is it that I became this thing? A lifeless creature without a cause, and
yet everything is new to me,I don't recognize the dawn.

Merciful death,how you love your precious guilt.I,ve walked with you at
night.Passing feelings of emotion,that make me feel unright.

But true it is, I don't remember any life before this,nor any kiss after
that.I walk at night lonly trying to remember my past.

There is no more to say to you,my new life should be but clear.Walk with me
and you will see, my endless trail of tears.

Should I remember any thing,I'll but let you know.For in this time of
grievness,I would like to be alone.

The nights are mine to walk on,join me if you like. Do not be frightened by
what you see, I swear to thee, its only in my mind.

This is the end for you and I, we shall go our seperate ways.Go and tell the
world the news,make fire with your pace.

Go hence, creation of God.Go out and face all that you fear,I'll be right here
as I've always been,crying under here.

&&&

A Welcoming Of The Strange

Jeffrey Reed Thompson

3 Cinquain

Strange girl

Dear - from Peru

Receives past three letters -

Four new parables . . . I am left

In doubt.

Strange girl

Liked Indian

Goes to her school so true,

With new preambles - and surely,

I fly.

Let’s bless

Her from Peru -

Be honest and sincere,

As if all things stem from that life

I trust!

&&&

The Enlightment

Sabrina Halaine Peek

As one wonders;

through the stages of their life.

Enlightment!

As one wonder;

through the lessons of their life.

Enlightment!

As one wonders;

through the paths of their life.

Enlightment!

As one wonder;

through the history of life.

Enlightment!

As one wonders;

through the lines.

Enlightment.

&&&

I had a smile just for you,

When I see you walking down the road...

Need for the light,

To guide you straight for the right way...

I stay here just for a while,

Keep watching you standing there...

Until your time has come,

Leaves me and really walk away...

But I have no realized that you'll never comeback,

Just say goodbye to me...

In the island of hope I'm being alone,

Waiting for you to pick me up,

Brings me to the line of happy with you..

It impossible moment could be happened to me...

My days so blue,

And my nights too cold...

Dear,...I'm cold here and going to frozen without you...

I've forgot to tell you at the time you beside me,

That I love you very well...

Now I missing you like standing in the dark,

But I think I can't taking good cares of you someday...

Gosh...how could I expected you are together with me...?

Event in another day I don't know where you are...

Maybe you'll be happy elsewhere or with someone else...

But this time,...please stand by me,

I really need you so...

Ramma Alhaz

&&&

Gay
Callum Johnson

Opium should be the religion of the people.

Recreational like a doll house

And with the silver bells so erudite so rude

Let the world sigh their forbidden, intoxicating smoke

In a trance of worship

In a revelry

Wrought in fire, hot as hallucinogens.

Give me opium then let me die.

&&&

I LOOK

Amy hughes

Everytime I look at your face

theirs nothing to explain

cause this love for you

will always be the same.

When I look in your eyes

I know each time when

you look in mine that the

love you have for me

will guarantee i will always

be the one of your dreams.

&&&

Hush Beyond the Nexus

Myk Barry

Calm falls in this place of sanctity

One last requiem sounds in the breeze

When did I leave my rotting soul

There among the pine trees

Putrid waters cascading

Down the mountainside

There she walks among the pine trees

Look into her eyes

Wishing for something more

Than this gentle death

Every step causes loss of purity

Reaching for these tangled memories

That fade away like a dream

Quiet down, lift me up

Tell me that you love me

Make me think that I mean something

Then throw me to the ground

Praying for something more

Than tears of little meaning

Trapped among these pine trees

Bring me out of this seclusion

Tasting how it feels

To once again be alone here

Pouring all away

Weeping now for any savior

The bitter taste of fear

Lets me look a little closer

Wishing for something more

Than this gentle death

Fin.

&&&

3RD TIME

Brian Watkins

This is for the times we never had

For the friends you want to be

Because its hurts when I don't see you

And it’s worse when I do

This is for the break that never came

Made me feel like it was just a game

For all the fun times I thought we had

All the indecision that made you mad

For the long anticipated kiss

That I will forever miss

For the morning that you knew

That we were through

Because I had a lump in my thought once more

All the sadness to the core

For the note that explained a lot

All of which I forgot

And back to you I came

For two days that weren't the same

Only to have my heart shattered

Three times my heart was battered

This is for the anger that was never there

The one I refused to bear

This is the poem you always wanted

Even though all I write is sorrow

It’s not about your beautiful hair

Or even how much I care

But for the times I never knew

&&&

Hurt

Amy Fadder

I try to talk to you,

But you won't listen,

I know that you don't care.

But it hurt's to see you laugh,

While i sit here and cry,

You told me you will never give up on me,

I believed you,

Now look at me,

You hurt me mom,

You hurt be bad,

One day I hope that you can forgive me,

&&&

THE ULTIMATE TEST

by: Michelle Anderson

You put yourself to the ultimate test

and now they lay you down to rest.

All the butterflies and the bees

and then a chill, a sudden breeze.

You wanted to prove that you did know

that life was nothing but a show.

You wanted to tell everyone what to see

but you should have just let it be.

You decided what you should do

you found a way for people to believe it was true.

You went upstairs and locked the door

and two minutes later fell to the floor.

I want you to know what you did was wrong

but truly kept us going forever strong.

&&&

I'LL ALWAYS BE YOUR FRIEND

Andrea Santos

We are friends, yes we are friends

That's how everyone sees us together

That's how you see us together

You know that i mean everything i say

I'll be here when you need a shoulder

I'll be at your side when you're down

I'll be the one you'll come running to

When everything around seems to disappear

I'm saving all my strength for you

To give you hope whenever you need it

And if you're still wondering who i am,

I'm the girl who truly loves you

Masquerading as your friend

If that's the only way i could get into your thoughts

If that's the only way you could see me through

If that's the only way i could keep you

Then i am and will always be your friend

&&&

“PASSION”.

Edmund Forte

The beast, crouched, wide eyed,

Tensed to pounce on his unwary prey,

The lovers in their innocence lay

On a Sunny Honey Day

Raising goblets of rich red wine

Their mouths and lips full

In each others praise

In sun dappled shady scene

Lying still, their tinkling laughs

Drifted through the lush green grass.

Hissing snarls from the beasts jaws

Gape eyed, glutton malice

For the scapegoat prey

Slithering forward, silent

Bared claws gripping soil

To rip asunder

The human hearts of all.

Lulled, by warm breezes, caressed

Each so gentle touch aware

Sweet perfumes of their love

All senses invaded

Whispering soft soft sighs

In that secret mossy glade

Then, Pouncing fast

With full blind fury

Spitting out shrieks of venomous hate

Sinews, claws unleashed

He laid the scapegoat hearts to waste.

Kissing gently

Dewy eyed

The lovers arose

And silently

Stole away.

&&&

"True Love Never Dies"--
Sarah Sophie

By the way he smiles by the way he stares I can tell he truely
cares. He can tell me looking into my eyes he will love me until he
dies. I know it's true, I have the same love for him too. It
will never die, aslong as i'm alive. No one can change the feeling I
feel. No one will ever understand, it's so unreal. He feels the same,
he told me so. This is the true love I will never let go.

&&&

Tomorrow

Darren Mckoy

Yesterday I had shed all my last tears,

Tears of sadness and frustration that

was built up for years.

Yesterday I laid all my pain and troubles to rest,

Fueled by strength and determination

I was able to bury those memories with confidence.

And today I seek to restructure my life,

I seek to heal my wounded wings and prepare to fly.

So no longer will I fall, No longer will the

Vultures of this world prevent me from standing tall.

For tomorrow it will be time to break free,

Time to make a change by starting inside of me.

It will be time to help others break their

shackles of yesterday,

As I seek to guide them along life's journey

Day by day.

&&&

teacher ,teaching,

in the room,

children playing,

learning too.

days go bye,

minds grow wide,

aging fast,

before the eyes.

time to tell,

kickball plays,

dogging all ,

the rainy days.

lunch bell rings,

bellies full,

nap time comes,

dreamland rules.

waken up,

feeling fine,

listen to,

the nursery rhyme.

Geoffrey S. Holt

&&&

A friend found me

Ben Jimenez

I've spent some time alone in need of friendship in my life,

I've wondered how to meet a friend that's true and really nice,

I've wondered what it takes to make someone a real true friend,

and just how I could keep them this way until my end,

but now it seems that I no longer need to be,

in search of any friendship cause a friend has come found me,

my mind races with some thoughts of who, what and where,

this person is in their life and if they've time to care,

I shall not ponder on any thoughts of failing as a friend,

cause I shall do my very best to be a friend to them.

&&&

AN INTERTWINED SOUL

05-17-99

chunsa517

It is not simply that I miss you.

Your hands. Your kisses.

The weight of your body on top of mine.

It is that I still feel you.

Your tongue touching mine.

Your lips on my neck.

You inside of me.

In a dance which makes its own rhythm.

As I walk through ordinary life,

my insides still move in an extraordinary dimension

where life is beyond words

and has entered a realm of actions and sighs.

It is worst in the late afternoons

when my body prepares for you on its own volition.

When the hour strikes,

my body responds to an internal heat

which no glass of cold water can douse.

What hurts most is not that I miss you.

It's that I still feel you

but you aren't here.

&&&

You Are Not Him
Rene' Bennett

I know it is wrong, it can't be right

as you hold me into the night.

It is him on my mind, him which I see

the warmth of your body is him touching me.

As I look in your eyes darkened with gray

your cold beating heart has made me this way.

Life is not changing so it must be me

rotating seasons I just can't see.

Show me a smile, I'll show you a tear

tell me of laughter, I'll tell you of fear.

Standing in shadows alone in the night,

hiding in corners away from the light.

Looking at you, looking at me

no, you are not him and never will be.

&&&

BABY BLUE TEARS

TERRIBLE BABY BLUE TEARS

WHAT SHOULD I DO?

BABY BABY BLUE

WHAT HAS THE DARKNESS DONE?

WHAT HAS THE DARKNESS DONE TO YOU?

BABY BLUE TEARS

MEET ME HERE....IN A THOUSAND YEARS

BABY ALL ALONE AND SO SAD

BABY IN BOX

BABY IN A BOX SLEEPING WITH A FOX

THERE IS NO SENSE IN THIS

BABY BLUE IN HER ARMS

TEN MORE TIMES TEN MORE TEARS

TERRIBLE BABY BLUE TEARS

R.SIHLER

{Welcome back - we've missed you! jr}

&&&

RED ROSE
HARINI SRIDHARAN

Your folds never unfold

The mystery of your scent

Your lovely red petals

Symbol of eternal love triumphant

Your blood red petals

Outshines gay green leaves

You symbolize a lady me lady

Closed as a bud you are a girl

You bloom as a lovely woman

But still holding many secrets

Your petals red but white in roots

And your thorns add awe and beauty

&&&

Waiting.

Alison

I sit here waiting in your silence.

Waiting for you to open your eyes.

Waiting for you to notice i'm alive.

Waiting for one glance.

One word.

One...touch.

Just to let me know you understand what's in my heart.

And i go on waiting.

For you never see me

The way i see you.

The way the sun shines

with everything you do.

My heart is raw.

For there are no glances, no words, no touch.

So i'll go on waiting in your silence.

Waiting for you...to let...me in.

&&&

Black Woman

Deborah Jones

Am I incapable to give or receive love

Do I dare ask for respect

That is long past due me

Simply because god made me a Black Woman

Should I wear my heart on my sleeve

For all to see like a neon marquis

An advertised decree that

I to can love

I am an embryo of Black Womanhood

With nappy hair and skin tones the colors

Of the rainbow the earth and the sun

When I am grown and mother a child

And feel my baby deep inside my womb

I will accept it as a semblance a sign of grace

That I am able to love

If I don't run a marathon and cross the finish line

Like Wilma Rudolph Jackie Joyner Kerse and Flo -Jo did

I still can love

When I get the blues but I dont sing like

Billie Sarah and Ella did I still can love

If I idolize peace justice and equality

But I don't march like

Rosa Parks and Coretta Scott King

I still can love

If my words dont flow like the poetic prose

Recited by Sonya Maya or Georgia Douglas

I still can love

I still can love

&&&

"Endgame"

Sebastian Clark

Red rivers of life stream their way down

Into crimson lakes without a sound

Streaks of color assault my eye

A bloodstained blade alone does lie

Beside the slice of sharpened steel

Now in the light, he is revealed

A man that's bloody, rotting, dead

He died alone all night he bled

He stained the room struggled to live

But he meant to die and die he did

Killed not by gun, or sword, or stone

He died of loneliness alone

Abandoned by everyone he loved

He blamed himself for it because

He kept being told how easy it was

To live this life without a love

When he reached for you you beat him back

His pleas for help met with attack

He slit his wrists, his last resort

From pain he couldn't seem to sort

I look still closer into his eyes

Only to jump back in surprise

The face of the one who'd ceased to be

belonged to noone other than me

&&&

SATURNINE LADY RETURNED NOT
necip kose

the suns repetition for twilight curse my seconds to refeel the day

my Lady in black ceded me alone

i've complicated the ways of regret to wonder who won by this separation

creeping her to back on yesterday

dimmed tomorrow obsessed my feelings

as i'm following my direction

i am supposed to weep deeper

never had i wanted to have

i've loved searing more than reviving

the tide between love and hate is the weird enigma of mind say

nowhere i could drag this confusion

even i became paler of her sight my mental vision can't deny that

she had intruded in me irrational

she was my nonsense tendency

her saturnine entity seduced

and spelly visage introduced

never seen i wanted to see

i've loved gloom more than pleasure

saturnine Lady will return not...

&&&

WHAT MAKES YOU LIKE THIS?

(for Jayne)

David Harkins

What makes you like this?

I wish it is because

You live your life

With magnificent carelessness.

You believe

It is because

Your mother’s threat

To lock you away

In a metal institution,

Where you go bed alone,

Is what makes you like this

Only they know -

Your family -

The real answer -

How your granddad

Abused you -

What your mother calls,

Just interference -

Is what makes you like this.

It is past midnight

And you lie here,

Beside me,

Unable to sleep.

&&&

Galadriel, Galadriel where art thou?

Under soil till and plow?

Your wood is overgrown with neglect.

Why do so many of your kindred reject?

They will not go to Valinor,

Do you go? Do you slumber, do you snore?

Do you walk in a mystical place?

Why can't we see your face?

Do you walk in shadow, under moon?

Will you make yourself preasent soon?

Do you rest never to be seen again?

Do you abandon all but your den?

Have you gone where none can follow?

Where things are dark and bacteria wallow?

Don't leave us now, unguided

In us you confided.

Galadriel of the goldon wood,

Have you gone where none could?

Your wood is empty your rule over

You call to us and we feel the lure

To look for your kingdome

We all wonder, humm

Sarah Gingrich

&&&

My World

Eric

You walk past me playing with my toys

And yet you are blind,

You see nothing of my world,

Neither a flower nor a star…

You, now an adult, have forgotten

How to enter that world where everything is wonderful,

You are full of worries and concerns about my future,

Yet I assure you I will manage.

In my world,

Heroes fight devious dragons

With their slicing swords and piercing spears,

Rescuing pretty princesses.

You have no hero

And sink even deeper

Into that pitch-black pit of despair,

That fits itself round your throat,

Like the hangman’s noose…

In my world,

Stars sparkle and smile at you, while

Flowers flourish and fill the air

With the fragrance of happiness.

You have grown up and right out of this world,

But that doesn’t give you the right

To blunder into the delicate fabric of my dreams

And rip them to shreds.

Remember:

You once had dreams,

You once had the innocence of a young earthly angel,

You once were a child…

&&&

I wish i found the words

To make everybody change their minds

Have them all take a look inside

To alter them

Maybe get them to cry

I want to be remembered

From intelligence and wit

I want that one great statement

I need to b reassured

Remembrance

Signify my life

Transform people

I just want recognition

Not fame, no spotlight

But bright

Very very bright

To have said that one thing right

Caitlin Pratt

&&&

HAVE HOPE

KARA

From the mistakes I have made

and the decisions I've faced,

I've always been able to learn something

from the outcome of it all...

at the time it may not seem right,

but in the end it'll turn out alright.

So keep your hopes, don't let it end,

you may face some things,

you know you won't be able to defend,

just believe in yourself

and in the end,

you'll have more happiness,

than from when you began

&&&

The Prey

Mahfoozur Rahman

In the dingy north west corner of a stiffled room

The blue-green spider scuttled across her web

Towards the snared little weevil that shook and shivered

In anticipation of what laid in wait, and I watched

The glad fruition of patience and perseverance, save

The glimpses of a jade-blue sky that strayed aloft,

Athwart unbroken dreams over the cracked tin-roof.

The disguised serpent of time slithered away

Over the carcass of a dying day, and I convulsed

Encapsulated in a leaky thimble of reality, as memory

Poured away to collect in the urn of gathering gloom.

Within the maze of the spider’s web, in between

Her gleaming eyes and the twitching weevil

The night entwined the day in a loveless embrace.

Flashes of lightning rolled across the parched plains

And winds gathered around the coconut palms asway

And I was helpless, held captive by the unfolding dance

Of love and death, as the spider kissed her squirming prey.

The darkened day of finite grace finally laid in rest

And my world sank in a tumultuous sea of infinite grey.

&&&

"3 AM"

-Janice Bernette Cruz

caught

by your piercing

eyes

i froze like

ice.

each moment, i savor.

from your

unforgettable smile

to your

lingering scent

that left your

soul

behind.

&&&

UNDERSTANDABLE

Joanna Marie de Jesus

The quiet corner of that coffee shop

Told me I could stay

Where I could watch you

Where I could be with you.

I then ordered a mint tea

You took the same

Now, that was understandable

We both liked it, didn't we?

The old watch in your pocket kept ticking

And I was restless in that corner

I knew it, of course, you were waiting for her

There she was, so shy yet so bare.

Like in the movies, you smiled

Your eyes danced as you pulled her chair

Wait! You never did that for me!

I trembled in my seat in agony.

Yes, i know, we were off a long time ago

What I saw was perfectly understandable

I finished my tea and held a last glimpse

Sigh...I guess I better leave.

&&&

life is merely give and take of love

love is true and

life is the ultimate truth

if not true it is not love

and if not the truth it is not life

illusions here are many but fights never ending

pathways are numerous

and choices never ending.

love and life

being a lake of tears

has laughters resembling stars

not so small as they seem to be.

love never dies

but life faces death physically

if you place yourself in a heart

you live forever .

yes, love life and it loves you.

kanika agrawal

&&&

STRONGER IN THE END

Marisa Anne Reed

Treat others, How you want, That's how you act, This is how i feel; I am
hurt, Because of you, I am here, Why i feel this way, because of you, the
words you say; beat me down, crush my soul, take my spirit, and run it
away. i feel this way, because of you, I'd always hoped, you'd be there
for me, not for yourself, yes, & you were there hurting me, i was on
the outside, looking in, but still i was lone, and you would win, make me
hurt, i let you win, i was weak; not anymore, i still hurt, my heart
aches; but i can take you on; anyday, anyway. your words are just words,
spoken from an ugly mouth, but now i have a shield, i am callused, from
the past, you cant get through, now I have you, don't lie to me, your
strength in my pain, ive got it now; you cant win again. my honesty my
faith, my knowledge and my trust, i trust you too much, but now when you
hurt me, i move on again, give me pain, i have no shame, im moving on, and
here you are, still right there, but here i am, moving on,!

so hurt me again, i have a shield, i trust you, i'm here for you,
so hurt me now; im moving on, coming with me? change your ways, itll be
okay, i have my shield, my honesty and my trust, my knowledge of you, your
words never hurt anymore, thanks for making me stronger than you, ill
still help you; how's that for pain? im moving on, & this past caused
by you, pain caused by you, you caused my hurt, you make me stronger;
stronger in the end

&&&

( dreams)
jesus muerte

in dreams i could be what i want to be but in reality i know
it will never be. in my thots in my mind i em ready to go on
whit my life to do to become to know to understand. but
in my hart i know it could never be.in my dreams i could be lawyer
a doctor a policemen but with my life i know that could never
be.in dreams i fine true love. in dreams i have people to
love. but with my life that will never be.in my dreams i wish they will
never end but i have to wake up and then it all ends. so i
guess the perfect world the perfect life and true happiness all
relied on a perfect dream.....

&&&

Little Girl (Part 1)

Karol Rubiano

little girl pick yourself off the ground

there is still tomorrow to fight for

there is still sorrow to vie for

there is still love here for you

when nothing else will do

and when there is no one

you still have the moon

you still have the azure ocean

watching over you

you still have the sun

warming your disposition

you still have the heart in your sleeve

don't be so blue

don't turn so mean

little girl pick yourself off the ground

destiny embraces you

take it's hand

when it offers it's rays

it's nothing but hope

that wont leave you astray

daughter of destiny

leave your worries behind

when they consume you like fire

when they leave you feeling like a fresh bruise

when nothing will feel like tomorrow

and change is the only hope

take that road less traveled

and when it rains

walk under the rain

feeling glad

and when they lie

tell yourself I will survive

sing

sing

that song

until you cry.

&&&

Sweet Pea

Brittany Wolf

I want you in the morning

From the moment I wake up

I want you to cuddle on

So I can feel your soft fur

I want you to bite me

So I can get your food

I want you here

I want you now

I want you alive

&&&

Many babies are born each day,

While many others die,

Why does it have to be this way,

Can someone tell me why?

Why do people have to die,

Why did Grandma have to go,

What is happening to them while I cry,

What is god trying to show?

"Where do we go when we die?"

I asked my mom one day,

Do we float up to the sky,

Or does it happen some other way?

We go to heaven, she told me,

A place that is perfect and nice,

A place with angels, and clean seas,

Where we are with Jesus Christ.

Soon everything started to make sense, to why people had to die,

And why death had to be,

And I realized that one day I would float up to the sky,

One day it would happen to me.

Jen H.

&&&

I being who I am, is no different form you

We might have different names, clothes and styles, but basically were
the same

If we ere cut the same, we’ll bleed the same, Might die at different
rates but

The blood is still red & will never change

So why must your respect change when you address a different skin tone?

No race is superior over the other because we are each other’s own

God gave us all special gifts

Gifts that if not received we will never be able to achieve our dreams

I dream of Martin’s dream

A dream of total freedom from Racism

A dream of serenity of peace

For you to judge me by my acts and match with my history…

Is because you believe your smart

My approach to you is no different form many others for

I consider as my sister and brother

My pride will help you see clearly that my love is sincerely pure

But before you start to participate in speaking out against

My Unique…mentally

You will soon see that your color is nothing sadly but

Hate.

NaNa Wilson

&&&

THE RIVER'S BOY

By Missy D.

The river ran

Deep like veins

Brushing swiftly on the bank

A river where stones skim the surface

A boy sits at its shore

A young boy

His face is calm

And glistens softly with color

Though, somehow he seems lost

He doesn't belong

An outsider

His reflection dances on the water's surface

But his expression is blank

It will never change

He'll never leave that river

It was where he was found first

And will stay forever

&&&

Lonely nights,
Regretful Reflections

thinking of our wrongs and rights,

"I hate you,

what you yelled at one of our last fights.

The insights I had made me mad,

how can i be glad?

You on the phone with Dad telling him I treat you bad.

Since a lad,

I loved you now our love is up in flames.

I'm sure your friends played a part;

I'm not naming names.

On one the cutest dames, you were.

Remember last December I bought you a fur.

Not it's all over in a blur due to a slur.

The purr of a cat Matt;

My only companion now.

Make it without you, how?

When I had you I'd smile saying Wow.

Looking across at an empty chair,

Makes me cry when I chow.

Jamada Burns

&&&

LOVE IS LIKE A FLOWER

BY:TANYA SZAMIER

Love is like a flower

Blooming in my heart

Everyday it gets a little bigger

But never shall fall apart

Everyday a petal grows

Until the flowers full

It takes up all the space it could

But wishes it had more

Now this flower has taken my heart

Just the way you did

If this flower ever dies

My heart may never live.

&&&

Trains of the Holocaust

Alexis

Foul stench of burning flesh,

Vile smell of trash and sweat.

These thing s made many forget,

Of the world before those trains.

Loved ones being taken away,

Never to be seen again.

These things made many forget,

Of their life before those trucks.

Rock hard beds,

And little food,

May not have been the best.

But they didn't dare protest,

For fear of a shot in the chest.

Six years passed,

And few survived.

While the ones who did,

Had lost family and friends.

It's over now.

But do you ask,

Will this ever happen again?

&&&

Reach your Goal

lilballerjr

If i don't achieve my goal ,

I’ll stumble and some how lose my soul

If label would know who i was the start to sign,

There will be never be a life like mine

Everyday living life to the fullest not knowing what happen the Next
day,

Coming to school every one saying the hi and hey

This poem is for the children like me trying to get there

Every day stressing and think about if you care

But my parent keeping telling me to keep trying

Every day when you fail you just wanna run and try to hide

Trying every to be the best as i can but keep failing

you feel like your going to fall just like it’s hail

&&&

What is a poem?¿

Is it the sound of music or the way you write or say something.

What is a poem?¿

ME telling you what to do, is that a poem? or you saying the lyrics to
a song.

What do you think is a poem?¿

Maybe the way you say I Love You!

Poems may be used as many different things and adventures.

I am a poet, we all are poets, poets from God.

Rubin D Johnson

&&&

Two Years Gone By

Jessica Hope Duncan

Life used to make me wonder.

All I think now is the world is nothing, but a book.

Everyday we must go paragraph by paragraph.

If you do not want to be a book that sits on the shelf you must remember
to be imaginative.

People do not just breeze by in life no matter what the say.

Life has speeded up for me.

A love that wraps itself around the cover of my book has showed me how
to turn the pages.

The words he adds to my book makes my body tremble with joy.

All the hatred and morbidity of the paragraph before are lost with this
new found love.

On to the next chapter.

It has been a year and the book is all about growing inside and out.

Learning from the sentences that anything can happen.

Cities are placed in the book that can not be named for the fact of
wrong doing.

The love is still there.

Next chapter

An exotic paradise with excitement is added to the book.

Extreme new adventures are swirling thier way into the chapters.

An extreme move comes underway.

The love has grown.

I sit back now and watch.

Two chapters flipped through.

It's just two years gone by.

&&&

Daydreams lies

ms.blue

wasting my time on daydream lies

well don't worry love. i am saying good bye

late night calls, there all gone

laugh, kisses, hugs and rubs

none from me

i'm leaving you alone

4 there no plac for me with love

the trip is over,i awoked from my dreams

I 'm going cold turkey

no looking back , not even a grieve

wasting my time on daydreams lies

asted my time on love

&&&

ANSWERS

Tina Rugala

Something about your eyes melts me inside

I could gaze into them for days and days

Your demeanor makes me feel that I am not worthy of your affection

Am I

Is my cry

Why do I crave your approval and praise

There has got to be a way to find out what it is I seek

If I could just peek into your brain

I must know what it is you feel when you look at me

Don't hide or hold anything inside for the time is now

The suspense is to much to bear

I care, but do you dare to share with me

I am digging too deep and I toss and turn in my sleep with thoughts of
you and your hypnotic stare